Popular Bajrang Dal Sanchalak found dead on Mangaluru beach.

B Upendran | HENB | Mangaluru | April 22, 2017:: A 35-year-old leading activist of the Bajrang Dal was found dead on a Mangaluru beach. Jagadish Suvarna was last seen on Thursday evening. Suvarna, the sanchalak of the Bajrang Dal’s Bangarare division had been missing since two days. Passersby who noticed his body on the Bengre beach informed the local police who rushed to the spot.

While the local police have registered a case his associates have taken to social media to not just inform others of his death but also express suspicion over it. The social media post that is being shared widely shows pictures of injuries and blood marks on Suvarna’s body. The post also says that his friends suspect it to be a case of Jihadi murder. The police, however, have refused to comment till further investigations.

Police commissioner Chandra Sekhar said it was too early to say if Jagdish Suvarna was murdered but tightened security across the district to stave off any outbreak of violence from Hindu right-wing organisations.

Police said Suvarna was found on the banks of an estuary on Friday afternoon, a day after he went missing while attending a wedding.

Suvarn’s death has garnered attention in the backdrop of many pro-right activists losing their lives in Karnataka in the recent past. The news of his death comes a day after the NIA filed a charge sheet against 5 people in RSS activist Rudresh murder case.

The region has a long history of Hindu-Muslim rivalry and usually sees hundreds of communal flare-ups every year.